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Ameliar-anne  and 
the   Green   Umbrella 

Told  in  Words 

By 

Constance  Heward 

Told  in  Pictures 

By 

Susan  Beatrice  Pearse 


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Her  name  was  Ameliar-anne 
Stiggins.  She  was  a  pale  child 
with  black  hair  which  she 
wore  in  curl  rags  from  Friday 
night  till  Sunday  morning. 


Her  mother  was  poor  and 
took  in  washing; 


Because,  besides  Ameliar-anne, 
who  was  the  eldest,  there  were 
some  five  other  little  Stigginses 
to  feed. 


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Now,  it  happened  one  day  just  be- 
fore Christmas  that  the  five  little 
Stigginses  had  colds  in  their  heads, 
so  Mrs.  Stiggins  sat  them  in  a  ring 
in  the  kitchen  with  their  feet  in  a 
tub  of  mustard  and  water. 


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After  that  she  put  them 
into  a  big  bed  and  gave 
them  hot  gruel  to  drink, 


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While  Ameliar-anne  stoodgloom- 
ily  by  and  shook  her  head,  which 
was  covered  with  curl  rags.  The 
reason  for  the  curl  rags  was  that 
all  the  village  children  had  been  in- 
vited to  a  grand  tea-party  at  the 
Squire's  thenext  day;  and  Ameliar- 
anne  was  gloomy  because  it  did  not 
seem  as  if  the  five  little  Stigginses 
would  be  able  to  go. 


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Sure  enough,  the  next  day  the  colds 
were  worse,  and  at  three  o'clock  in 
the  afternoon  Ameliar-anne's  hair 
was  taken  out  of  the  rags,  and  she 
put  on  her  Sunday  dress  and  coat 
and  hat,  and  started  oft  to  the  tea- 
party  with  twenty-five  ringlets 
bobbing  about  'round  her  neck. 


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And  the  five  little  Stig- 
ginses  sat  up  in  the  big 
bed  and  howled  horribly 
with  disappointment. 


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But  Ameliar-anne  had 
hardly  gotten  out  of  the 
front  door  before  she  was 
back  again. 


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"I  want  the  umbrella,"  she  said, 
and  she  took  it  from  the  corner 
in  the  parlor  where  it  lived.  It 
was  large  and  green,  with  a  goose's 
head  for  a  handle.  "It's  never  go- 
ing to  rain,  Ameliar-anne,"  said 
Mrs.  Stiggins.  "Whatever  do  you 
want  to  take  the  umbrella  for  I 
don't  know."  But  Ameliar-anne 
tossed  her  head  and  said  she  wasn't 
so  sure  about  the  rain,  and  she 
started  off  again  with  the  green 
umbrella  clasped  in  one  arm. 


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The  Squire  was  a  jolly 
old  man  with  a  round  red 
face  and  a  beard  like 
Father  Christmas. 


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But  the  Squire's  sister,  Miss  Jose- 
phine, was  a  cross  old  maid,  and 
she  thought  it  was  a  stupid  thing 
to  give  a  tea-party  to  the  village 
children.  She  was  always  there  to 
see  that  they  behaved  themselves. 


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Now  Miss  Josephine's  eagle-eve 
was  upon  Ameliar-anne  as  she  took 
her  seat  at  the  great  long  table  with 
the  other  children  and— "AME- 
LIA ANNE  STIGGINS,"  she 
said, "what  are  you  doing  with  that 
great  umbrella  in  here?  You  ought 
to  have  left  it  in  the  hall  with  your 
coat  and  hat." 


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"Oh,  nothing,  please,mum,  "stam- 
mered Ameliar-anne,  trying  to 
hide  the  umbrella  under  the  table; 
and  Miss  Josephine  stared  very 
hard  at  her  and  then  went  on  to 
find  fault  with  somebody  else. 


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What  a  tea  that  was!  There  were 
cakes  with  pink  icing  and  cherries 
on  the  top,  and  jam  tarts  that 
melted  in  one's  mouth,  and  biscuit 
with  creamy  insides,  and  scones 
and  buns! 


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Ameliar-anne  seemed  to  be  ter- 
ribly hungry,  for  her  plate  was 
nearly  always  empty,  but  though 
she  did  not  reach  out  and  help  her- 
self, she  was  never  allowed  to  wait 
long,  because  there  were  a  great 
many  smiling  maids  to  pass  the 
cakes  and  fill  up  the  tea-cups. 


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When  tea  was  over,  the 
children  went  back  to  the 
hall  and  put  on  their  hats 
and  coats. 


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As  they  went  out,  a  smart  foot- 
man at  the  door  gave  each  child 
an  orange,  an  apple,  and  a  bag  of 
sweets.  Ameliar-anne  took  her 
orange  and  apple  and  bag  of  sweets 
and  said,  "Thank  you,  sir." 


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Ameliar-anne  was  almost  the  last 
to  go,  because  she  had  taken  the 
wrong  hat  and  had  to  go  back  into 
the  house. 


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She  was  just  ready  to  go  through 
the  door  again,  when  suddenly 
Miss  Josephine  stepped  forward, 
"AMELIA  ANNE  STIGGINS," 
she  said,  "I  will  put  up  your  um- 
brella for  you,"  and  she  took  it 
firmly  out  of  Ameliar-anne's  hand. 


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"Oh,  mum!"  cried  Amel- 
iar-anne,  and  clutched 
Miss  Josephine's  arm. 


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But  Miss  Josephine  shook  her  off 
and  held  up  the  umbrella  and  shot 
it  open,  and  out  upon  the  floor, 
in  the  bright  light  that  came  from 
the  hall  lamp,  fell  jam  tarts  and 
iced  cakes  and  biscuits  and  scones. 
"Greedy  child!"  said  Miss  Jose- 
phine. 


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And  Ameliar-anne  cov- 
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hands  and  wept. 


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But  the  Squire  looked  down  at  the 
feast  on  the  floor  and  patted  Amel- 
iar-anne  kindly  on  the  shoulder. 
"Come,  come!"  he  said,  "It  was 
your  own  tea  you  put  into  the  um- 
brella. I  know,  because  I  watched 
you  and  you  never  ate  anything 
at  all." 


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"Oh,  sir,"  cried  Ameliar-anne,  un- 
covering her  face,  "I'm  glad  you 
saw,  'cos  I  didn't  take  a  bitmore'n 
what  I  could  easy  have  ate;  and 
the  five  of  them's  got  colds  in  their 
heads,  and  when  I  left  them  they 
were  all  howlin'  somethink  awful, 
and  I  couldn't  bear  to  go  home  and 
tell  them  everything  and  them  not 
have  a  bite,  as  you  might  say." 


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"Well,  well,"  said  the  Squire,  "I 
thought  there  was  somebody  miss- 
ing and,  of  course,  there'll  be  five 
teas  left  over,  and  I  think  we  could 
find  a  sixth,  as  this  one  is  spoilt. 
John"— to  the  smart  footman— "a 
basket,  please,  with  cakes  for  six 
people,"  and  John  went  like  a  shot, 
while  Miss  Josephine  dropped  the 
umbrella  and  walked  slowly  past 
Ameliar-anne  and  the  Squire  with 
her  nose  in  the  air  and  a  look  of 
horrified  disgust  on  her  face. 


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In  two  minutes  John  was 
back  again  with  a  huge 
basket  covered  with  a 
white  cloth  and— 


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Fifteen  minutes  later  Ameliar- 
anne  staggered  into  the  Stigginses' 
house  and  upstairs  to  the  bed- 
room, with  the  huge  basket  on 
one  arm  and  the  green  umbrella 
clutched  in  the  other. 


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And  the  five  little  Stigginses  sat 
up  in  bed  with  their  eyes  nearly 
starting  out  of  their  heads,  and 
Mrs.  Stiggins  sat  bump  upon  a 
chair,  because  she  said  it  gave  her 
quite  a  turn,  when  Ameliar-anne 
took  the  cover  off  the  basket. 


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For  inside  that  basket  were  cakes 
enough  for  six  and  Mrs.  Stiggins 
as  well;  and  oranges  and  apples  and 
bags  of  sweets;  and,  when  every- 
body had  finished,  Ameliar-anne 
was  sure  that  she  must  have  eaten 
quite  twice  as  much  as  she  had 
meant  to  bring  home  in  the  green 
umbrella. 


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